Originally Posted by
JoeMerchant
Of course 4A. doesn't refer to either Skywest or Republic as they both operate aircraft that are certificated to MORE than 80 seats. If Skywest and Republic aren't "4A" carriers, then what do they fall under? Again, this is United Express flying, and neither carrier falls under 4A.
In addition, when the XJET transaction goes thru, XJET will no longer fall under 4A as Atlantic Southeast operates aircraft certificated for more than 80 seats.
What other "carriers" are there besides "Complementary Carriers"? What does United fall under in the CAL scope section as you are putting the CAL code on their airplanes?
It also appears that the Mesa 90 seat flying operates outside of this section too.
Maybe you are right since I missed the word "certification." However, using your statement AND the scope clause, notice how it says carriers who ONLY operate aircraft certified to less than 80 seats MAY be used in codeshare. Since you point out that those airlines don't operate ONLY less than 80-seat aircraft, then by extension of the verbage in the scope language those carriers MAY NOT operate under a CO codeshare AT ALL.
As far as what other carriers there are, our scope section defines the company (CAL), express carriers (the ones CAL has a Continental Express agreement with), and complementary carriers (for simplicity sake all other domestic carriers which would include United). United is allowed because it is a merger situation between two companies. The express carriers are not being merged (by any control of UAL/CAL corporate parents that is) under our merger scenario.